Amazon.com, Inc. engages in the retail sale of consumer products and subscriptions in North America and internationally. The company operates through three segments: North America, International, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) segments. It sells merchandise and content purchased for resale from third-party sellers through physical stores and online stores. The company also manufactures and sells electronic devices, including Kindle e-readers, Fire tablets, Fire TVs, and Echo devices; provides Kindle Direct Publishing, an online service that allows independent authors and publishers to make their books available in the Kindle Store; and develops and produces media content. In addition, it offers programs that enable sellers to sell their products on its Websites, as well as their own branded Websites; and programs that allow authors, musicians, filmmakers, skill and app developers, and others to publish and sell content. Further, the company provides compute, storage, database, and other AWS services, as well as compute, storage, database offerings, fulfillment, publishing, digital content subscriptions, advertising, and co-branded credit card agreement services. Additionally, it offers Amazon Prime, a membership program, which provides free shipping of various items; access to streaming of movies and TV episodes; and other services. It serves consumers, sellers, developers, enterprises, and content creators. Amazon.com, Inc. has a strategic partnership with Volkswagen AG. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

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Amazon.com has received 59.84% “underperform” votes from our community.

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In the past three months, Amazon.com insiders have sold 11,092.35% more of their company's stock than they have bought. Specifically, they have bought $193,041.00 in company stock and sold $21,605,827.00 in company stock.

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Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) Frequently Asked Questions

How has Amazon.com's stock been impacted by COVID-19 (Coronavirus)?

Amazon.com's stock was trading at $1,820.86 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 (Coronavirus) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, AMZN shares have increased by 36.4% and is now trading at $2,483.00. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

Do Wall Street analysts recommend investors buy shares of Amazon.com?

48 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Amazon.com in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 3 hold ratings and 44 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View analyst ratings for Amazon.com.

When is Amazon.com's next earnings date?

How were Amazon.com's earnings last quarter?

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) issued its earnings results on Thursday, April, 30th. The e-commerce giant reported $5.01 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $6.36 by $1.35. The e-commerce giant earned $75.45 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $74.15 billion. Amazon.com had a net margin of 3.56% and a return on equity of 17.83%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 26.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned $7.09 earnings per share. View Amazon.com's earnings history.

What guidance has Amazon.com issued on next quarter's earnings?

Amazon.com issued an update on its second quarter 2020
After-Hours earnings guidance on Thursday, April, 30th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $75-81 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $77.99 billion.

What price target have analysts set for AMZN?

48 analysts have issued twelve-month price objectives for Amazon.com's stock. Their forecasts range from $1,850.00 to $3,000.00. On average, they expect Amazon.com's stock price to reach $2,566.87 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 3.4% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Amazon.com.

What are Wall Street analysts saying about Amazon.com stock?

Here are some recent quotes from research analysts about Amazon.com stock:

2. According to Zacks Investment Research, "Amazon is suffering from rising transportation and fulfillment center costs related to its free one-day shipping service. Further, growing adoption of e-commerce technique by traditional retailers poses a serious concern. Rising cloud competition from Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud is a risk. Although AWS dominates the cloud computing space, growth in its market share has become stagnant. The stock has underperformed its industry on a year-to-date basis. Nevertheless, Amazon continues to ride on its aggressive retail strategies and distribution strength. Moreover, rapid adoption of Prime driven by customer benefits and strengthening grocery services is a tailwind. Expanding AWS services and improving Alexa skills are positives. However, Amazon expects foreign exchange headwinds to continue impacting its top line." (9/25/2019)

3. Benchmark Co. analysts commented, "We find this highly reminiscent of the warehouse and datacenter build-out days, if not to a lesser degree, as we expect elevated costs could begin to diminish as early as 4Q19. If shares demonstrate any kind of material weakness on the soft profit results today, we would be buyers on the pullback." (7/26/2019)

4. Stifel Nicolaus analysts commented, "We support the company’s investments in faster shipping, AWS, advertising services and international, which we expect to persist over the next several quarters. We believe one-day shipping will allow Amazon to widen the convenience gap versus peers. We are increasing our FY:19 revenue forecast as we expect continued strength in Online Stores, and lowering our FY:19 operating margin forecast to reflect the company’s incremental investments in strategic areas. We remain $2,300 price target. above expectations driven by Online Stores sales growth. Amazon reported 2Q revenue growth of 21% y/y FX-adj. to $63.4B, modestly above our $63.0B estimate and near the high end of the guided range ($59.5-$63.5B)." (7/26/2019)

5. KeyCorp analysts commented, "We believe that trends have improved since the 1Q and our higher estimates for U.S. retail underpin our increase in price target to $2,200." (7/22/2019)

Has Amazon.com been receiving favorable news coverage?

Media headlines about AMZN stock have been trending somewhat positive on Sunday, InfoTrie reports. The research firm scores the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Amazon.com earned a daily sentiment score of 1.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave headlines about the e-commerce giant a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next several days. View the latest news aboutAmazon.com.

Are investors shorting Amazon.com?

Amazon.com saw a drop in short interest in the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totaling 3,510,000 shares, a drop of 29.1% from the April 30th total of 4,950,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 6,050,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 0.6 days. Approximately 0.8% of the company's shares are short sold. View Amazon.com's Current Options Chain.

Which major investors are buying Amazon.com stock?

AMZN stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Advisor Group Holdings Inc., Alliancebernstein L.P., Wellington Management Group LLP, Girard Partners LTD., Capital Research Global Investors, Capital World Investors, Parnassus Investments CA, and Capital International Investors. View insider buying and selling activity for Amazon.com.

How do I buy shares of Amazon.com?

Shares of AMZN can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.

What is Amazon.com's stock price today?

One share of AMZN stock can currently be purchased for approximately $2,483.00.

How big of a company is Amazon.com?

Amazon.com has a market capitalization of $1.24 trillion and generates $280.52 billion in revenue each year. The e-commerce giant earns $11.59 billion in net income (profit) each year or $23.01 on an earnings per share basis. Amazon.com employs 798,000 workers across the globe.